Product Description

Originally released as a 2-LP set. Kiss: Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley vocals guitar, Gene Simmons vocals bass, Peter Criss vocals drums. Producers Kiss, Bob Ezrin, Eddie Kramer, Kenny Kerner, Rich Wise, Neil Bogart. Compilation producers Kiss, Sean Delaney. As a best-of collection, DOUBLE PLATINUM is textbook stuff--released while Kiss was at the height of its game, it brings together only the bands finest, originally covering four LP sides in an impressive, shiny package. As the unabashedly sales-oriented title implies, these are the tracks that made them kings. Despite the updated Strutter 78, DOUBLE PLATINUM is pure history, though it was admittedly pretty recent history at the time. No era of the bands action-packed career is ignored on this set early classics such as 100,000 Years and Hotter Than Hell sit right alongside such latter-day staples as Detroit Rock City and God of Thunder. The bands progression in its then-brief history is remarkable. Though Kiss powerful, primal gift was apparent from the very start, it took a few years of hard touring on a global scale before they developed their uncanny ability to write stadium rock of the grandest scale songs like Rock And Roll All Night, that went straight to the center of an eras collective musical consciousness.